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We examine the effective field theory (EFT) of maximal chaos through the lens of Krylov complexity and the Universal Operator Growth Hypothesis. We test the relationship between two measures of quantum chaos: out-of-time-ordered correlators…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-03-16 Saskia Demulder , Maria Knysh , Andrew Rolph

We study Krylov complexity in Schr\"odinger field theory in the grand canonical ensemble with chemical potential $\mu$, with an emphasis on the qualitatively new features that arise for $\mu>0$. In this regime the fermionic Wightman power…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-03-02 Peng-Zhang He , Lei-Hua Liu , Hai-Qing Zhang , Qing-Quan Jiang

Krylov complexity has been proposed as a diagnostic of chaos in non-integrable lattice and quantum mechanical systems, and if the system is chaotic, Krylov complexity grows exponentially with time. However, when Krylov complexity is applied…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-01-10 Takanori Anegawa , Norihiro Iizuka , Mitsuhiro Nishida

We study Krylov complexity in Lifshitz-type Dirac field theories with a generic dynamical critical exponent $z$. By computing the Lanczos coefficients for massless and massive cases, we analyze the growth and saturation behavior of Krylov…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-11-11 Hamid R. Imani , Komeil Babaei Velni , M. Reza Mohammadi Mozaffar

Heisenberg time evolution under a chaotic many-body Hamiltonian $H$ transforms an initially simple operator into an increasingly complex one, as it spreads over Hilbert space. Krylov complexity, or `K-complexity', quantifies this growth…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-06-30 E. Rabinovici , A. Sánchez-Garrido , R. Shir , J. Sonner

The operator wavefunction provides a fine-grained description of quantum chaos and of the irreversible growth of simple operators into increasingly complex ones. Remarkably, at finite temperature this wavefunction can acquire a phase that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-14 Rishik Perugu , Bryce Kobrin , Michael O. Flynn , Thomas Scaffidi

Inspired by the universal operator growth hypothesis, we extend the formalism of Krylov construction in dissipative open quantum systems connected to a Markovian bath. Our construction is based upon the modification of the Liouvillian…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-12-19 Aranya Bhattacharya , Pratik Nandy , Pingal Pratyush Nath , Himanshu Sahu

We show that operator growth in large-central-charge conformal field theories with $\mathcal{W}_3$ symmetry can violate the universal operator growth hypothesis once the Liouvillian is enlarged to probe the higher-spin generators. For the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-12 Dileep P. Jatkar , Sujoy Mahato , Sukrut Mondkar , Praveen Thalore

Krylov complexity is a measure of operator growth in quantum systems, based on the number of orthogonal basis vectors needed to approximate the time evolution of an operator. In this paper, we study the Krylov complexity of a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-12-27 Cameron Beetar , Nitin Gupta , S. Shajidul Haque , Jeff Murugan , Hendrik J R Van Zyl

We study a notion of operator growth known as Krylov complexity in free and interacting massive scalar quantum field theories in $d$-dimensions at finite temperature. We consider the effects of mass, one-loop self-energy due to perturbative…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-04-02 Hugo A. Camargo , Viktor Jahnke , Keun-Young Kim , Mitsuhiro Nishida

We investigate and characterize the dynamics of operator growth in irrational two-dimensional conformal field theories. By employing the oscillator realization of the Virasoro algebra and CFT states, we systematically implement the Lanczos…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-01-05 Pawel Caputa , Shouvik Datta

We continue the analysis of the Krylov complexity in the IP matrix model. In a previous paper, for a fundamental operator, it was shown that at zero temperature, the Krylov complexity oscillates and does not grow, but in the infinite…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-08-17 Norihiro Iizuka , Mitsuhiro Nishida

We investigate Krylov complexity of the fermion chain operator which consists of multiple Majorana fermions in the double-scaled SYK (DSSYK) model with finite temperature. Using the fact that Krylov complexity is computable from two-point…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-07-19 Takanori Anegawa , Ryota Watanabe

We study upper bounds on the growth of operator entropy $S_K$ in operator growth. Using uncertainty relation, we first prove a dispersion bound on the growth rate $|\partial_t S_K|\leq 2b_1 \Delta S_K$, where $b_1$ is the first Lanczos…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-09-07 Zhong-Ying Fan

We study Krylov (spread) complexity in strongly coupled six-dimensional ${\cal N}=(1,0)$ superconformal field theories with holographic duals in massive type IIA supergravity. Extending recent holographic proposals relating Krylov…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-08 Ali Fatemiabhari , Carlos Nunez , Ricardo T. Santamaria

Krylov complexity is considered to provide a measure of the growth of operators evolving under Hamiltonian dynamics. The main strategy is the analysis of the structure of Krylov subspace $\mathcal{K}_M(\mathcal{H},\eta)$ spanned by the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-21 Ryu Sasaki

We study Krylov complexity in BMN Plane Wave Matrix Model at large mass deformation. We consider various consistent reductions of the matrix model that allow us to perform a Hamiltonian analysis which leads to different notions of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-26 Dibakar Roychowdhury

Krylov complexity has recently emerged as a useful probe of operator growth and quantum dynamics in many-body systems and holographic dualities. In this paper we study its behavior in the Veneziano--Wosiek model, a supersymmetric matrix…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-03-24 Eleonora Alfinito , Matteo Beccaria

Continuing the previous initiatives arXiv: 2207.05347 and arXiv: 2212.06180, we pursue the exploration of operator growth and Krylov complexity in dissipative open quantum systems. In this paper, we resort to the bi-Lanczos algorithm…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-12-15 Aranya Bhattacharya , Pratik Nandy , Pingal Pratyush Nath , Himanshu Sahu

We study the statistical properties of Lanczos coefficients over an ensemble of random initial operators generating the Krylov space. We propose two statistical quantities that are important in characterizing the complexity: the average…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-20 Zhuoran Li , Wei Fan